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arbutus, hepaticas, bloodroot, anemones, 

 saxifrage, violets, dogtooth violets, spring 

 beauties, " cowslips," buttercups, corydalis, 

 columbine, Dutchman's breeches, clintonia, 

 five-finger, and all the rest of that bright 

 and fragrant host which, ever since he can 

 remember, he has seen covering his native 

 hills and valleys with the return of May. 



It is not meant, of course, that plants 

 like these are wholly wanting in Florida. I 

 remember an abundance of violets, blue and 

 white, especially in the flat-woods, where 

 also I often found pretty butterworts of two 

 or three sorts. The smaller blue ones took 

 very acceptably the place of hepaticas, and 

 indeed I heard them called by that name. 

 But, as compared with what one sees in New 

 England, such "ground flowers," flowers 

 which it seems perfectly natural to pluck 

 for a nosegay, were very little in evidence. 

 I heard Northern visitors remark the fact 

 again and again. On this pretty road out 

 of Tallahassee itself a city of flower gar- 

 dens I can recall nothing of the kind 

 except half a dozen strawberry blossoms, 

 and the oxalis and specularia before men- 

 tioned. Probably the round-leaved hous- 



